HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - Pu’e:  Rape
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The fire blazed up, then only ashes were left.”

October 1, 1992: Dole Packaged Foods Company begins phasing out its Lanai Plantation operations this month.

The interaction of Dole and the sad history of the takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom is left for another date. Let it suffice to note here that in 1922, James Dole purchased the Island of Lanai to grow pineapples. At this time, Dole was the largest processor of pineapple in the world, and on Lanai, planted 200,000 acres of the bromeliad. One can only imagine the surprise at the purchase which must have come on the part of many Hawaiians whose families had lived on the island for hundreds of years.

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Music is undeniably the international language. Every country, every culture and every generation has its own unique style of music. Each speaks to us at its own emotional and aesthetic level, from foot-stomping, heart-pumping beats to romantic and evocative crooning. Maui has its own international embassador of music, who speaks every musical language with equal ease and excellence of interpretation–Willie K.

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